A progressive journalist has ludicrously claimed that the Trump administration has deployed a body double of Melania to accompany the president on occasions when the First Lady is unavailable.

In a tweet that went viral, Twitter user @Redpainter1 asserted, “GUYS THAT IS NOT MELANIA” alongside a picture of President Trump and the First Lady visiting a row of crosses in Beauregard, Alabama to signify the people killed during last week’s tornado.

The original tweet received over 6,300 retweets and nearly 26,000 likes.

The conspiracy that Melania is sometimes replaced by a body double originated in 2017 when people began claiming that the “Melania” who appeared at a US Secret Service training facility was an imposter.

One of the tweets garnered a whopping 112,000 likes and over 3.5 million video views, and it seems the conspiracy is still thriving.

This is not Melania. To think they would go this far & try & make us think its her on TV is mind blowing. Makes me wonder what else is a lie pic.twitter.com/JhPVmXdGit